{{short description|American labor and political strategist}} {{Infobox person | name = Steven P. Rosenthal | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | other_names = | occupation = Labor and political strategist | known_for = AFL-CIO political director; founder and CEO of America Coming Together }} '''Steven "Steve" Rosenthal''' is an American labor and political strategist. He was the political director of the AFL-CIO for seven years.
==Biography== Rosenthal's father was a Brooklyn shoe salesman.<ref>Aaron Bernstein & Richard S. Dunham, "He's Got Washington Listening to Labor Again," ''BusinessWeek'' (November 4, 1996).</ref>
In 2003, Rosenthal was one of the founders and chief executive officer of America Coming Together (ACT), a voter mobilization project aimed at defeating incumbent Republican president George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. ACT raised and spent over $142 million and built one of the largest voter mobilization campaigns in Democratic history.<ref>Christopher Hayes, [http://www.thenation.com/article/can-democrats-win-ground-war-home?page=full Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home?], ''The Nation'' (November 30, 2005).</ref>
Rosenthal served for seven years as the political director of the AFL-CIO.<ref name="Greenhouse">Steve Greenhouse, [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/05/us/political-director-of-labor-federation-to-quit-post.html Political Director of Labor Federation to Quit Post], ''New York Times'' (August 5, 2002).</ref> He announced in August 2002 that he would be stepping down from his post after the November elections.<ref name="Greenhouse"/> At the time, ''The New York Times'' reported that many union leaders credited Rosenthal with "transforming organized labor's feeble, forgettable campaign operation into one that many political analysts say is the most effective in the nation."<ref name="Greenhouse"/>
Matt Bai in ''The New York Times'' described Rosenthal in 2005 as one of "the Democratic Party's smartest and most influential strategists."<ref>Matt Bai, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E3DC113CF932A1575BC0A9639C8B63 The Way We Live Now: Machine Dreams], ''The New York Times'' (August 21, 2005).</ref>
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